Should our public schools make musical education a priority?

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Musical education is underrated. I once read a study where reading & playing music helps develop the brain to recognize structure and sub-structure - important concepts in computer programming and science.

Music education, not music appreciation, is particularly crucial for children today since they spend so much time staring at various screens. For the ancient Greeks, it was math, music, and Homer...Achilles played the lyre and sang with gusto, also Odysseus...remember the Studs Terkel book where he detailed that fact that men and boys often sang together before the 1050s/1960s? In S. Mithen's SINGING NEANDERTHALS book it is show that we likely hummed and chanted and tapped sticks long before true oral language [prose] began....! It is a crime what we're doing to arts and music education in the public schools. You would moan if you learned how much time is given over to active music playing and studio art in Bavarian public schools today.